These plays are by African-American writers, including The Purple Flower, by Bonner, as well as works by W. E B. Dubois, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange, and Imamu Amiri Baraka.

Hayward Gallery of London, Rhapsodies in Black Art of the Harlem Renaissance, University of California Press, 1997.

This is a catalogue with commentary on artworks of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the exhibit "Rhapsodies in Black," organized by the Hayward Gallery in London.